(b) "Disbursement of loan funds" means the delivery of the
loan funds by the lender to the settlement agent in the form of:

(1) Cash;

(2) Wired funds;

(3) Certified check;

(4) Checks issued by the United States treasury, the state of
West Virginia or an instrumentality of the United States or state
of West Virginia;

(5) Cashier's check or teller's check or other similar draft
or obligation of a federally insured bank, savings bank, savings
and loan association or credit union or of any holding company or
wholly owned subsidiary of the foregoing;

(6) Checks issued by a licensed lender qualified to do
business in West Virginia which has posted the surety bond required
by subsection (b), section four, article seventeen, chapter
thirty-one of this code;

(7) Checks issued by an insurance company licensed and
regulated by the West Virginia insurance commission, which checks
are drawn on a federally insured financial institution;

(8) Checks drawn on the escrow account of an attorney licensed
to practice law in West Virginia or on the escrow account of a real estate broker licensed in West Virginia; or

(9) Personal check or checks in an aggregate amount not
exceeding five thousand dollars per loan closing.

(c) "Disbursement of settlement proceeds" means the payment of
all proceeds of the transaction by the settlement agent to the
persons entitled thereto.

(d) "Lender" means any person regularly engaged in making
loans secured by deeds of trust to secure debt on West Virginia
real estate. A person is considered to be regularly engaged in
making loans if he or she makes more than five such loans in any
one calendar year.

(e) "Loan closing" means that time agreed upon by the
borrower, lender, seller, if applicable, and settlement agent when
the execution by the borrower and delivery of the loan documents to
the settlement agent occur.

(f) "Loan documents" means the note evidencing the debt due
the lender, the deed of trust, or mortgage securing the debt due to
the lender, and any other documents required by the lender to be
executed by the borrower as a part of the transaction.

(g) "Loan funds" means the gross or net proceeds of the loan
to be disbursed by or on behalf of the lender at loan closing.

(h) "Parties", as used in this subsection, means the seller,
purchaser, borrower, lender and the settlement agent, as
applicable.

(i) "Settlement" means the time when the settlement agent has received the duly executed deed, loan funds, loan documents and
other documents and funds required to carry out the terms of the
contract between the parties.

(j) "Settlement agent" means the person authorized by law to
be responsible for conducting the settlement and disbursement of
the settlement proceeds.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2014 1st Special Session
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